[Theforum] Paying Our Debt

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Dec 20 17:41:03 CST 2002


On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Dean Mah wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:45:26PM +0000, Martin Burns wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Dean Mah wrote:
> >
> > > How are we for money?  Have we paid Ron *anything* for hosting the
> > > last 4 months?
> >
> > No, but eouk has reduced the bandwidth burden *considerably*, and I'd
> > expect the new mirror (nice one William) to go further still.
>
> Understood.  But I'm talking past debt, not future debt although that
> is a consideration as well.

It was past usage I was thinking of:
http://members.evolt.org/martin/evolt/browser_stats.html
 
Historical traffic
Monthly traffic in GB: (sorry, haven't added Nov data to this)
	beo 	deouk Total
June 	76.8	0 	76.8
July 	84.0	0 	84.0
Aug 	34.2	50.93	85.1
Sept 	43.6	82.12 	125.7
Oct 	41.2	104.6 	145.8

We moved to Ron's at the beginning of August. Eouk beo mirror launched
mid-August.

Not that that negates your point that we're still using Ron's bandwidth
and space/power/support without any payment, and also:

> Sure but while we are deciding what to do, we still have to pay for
> the current situation.
>
>
> > Finally, if the discussion we're having about evolters.org actually
> > ends up anywhere, it'll bring in cash too.
>
> Do you have any quick links to the evolters.org discussion?  If not,
> I'll search for it next week.

Start with John's post that I quoted, or this one:
http://lists.evolt.org/steeringarchive/2002-December/000172.html
just follow the thread.

Cheers
Martin

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